" And if you did this, if you saved your mother from this vicious killer, would you be doing the wrong thing or the right thing?" " The right thing," I said just as swiftly." No, Lin, I'm afraid not," he frowned. " We have just seen that in the terms of this new, objective definition of good and evil, killing is always wrong because, if everyone did it, we would not move toward God, the ultimate complexity, with the rest of the universe. So it is wrong to kill. But your reasons were good. So therefore, the truth of this decision is that you did the wrong thing, for the right reasons ... "